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LITERARY REVIIM. THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE, a Novel, in Four Volumes. By Miss JANE PoarEa, Author of Thaddeus of Warsaw, Sidney's Aphorisms, and The Scottish Chiefs. Second Edition. London : printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, FORME, and BROWN, Paternoster-row. It is wilit peculiar satisfaction we learn that awntiiov "ettiliOn of ih'e Pa s tor's Fireside is about to issue from the Press. Regarding the present exalted state of female literature as a criterion by which to measure the progress of civilization and refinement, we are iLsposed to view with pride and exultation the encouragement of fe:naie ta lent, more especially when that talent, directed by exemplary 1)611(.4 les, is successfully exerted to promote the best interests of:society. Amongst the writers of the present age who hjve given to fiction a serious tone, a dignified character, Miss PottTEit must ever claim a diS• 'deignidled place. She has never stooped to the lirodtcction of those delirious atnatory tales, avlC'iell',under the pl %risible disguise of sentitnen fality, inflame the passions, •whilst they pervert he j,idgment. Ftou4 the commencemeot of her li terary carce.r, her pen has been consecrated to the cause of . religion and virtue ; the delicacy and dignity of the female sex has been strenuously pre served, and even the peculiar loveliness of the female character exemplified in her compositions. In Tiraddeos and Wallace she has exhibited the most tofiching ex 'triples of heroism and magna nimity. In the Pastor's Fireside she has con tiasted the ambitious spirit, ready to sacrifice every moral and religioos duty fir the acquisition bf power and pre-eminctice, with that Being terraily aspiring, but more sublime, to whom there exists in pioliny an object still more sacred titan glory. The ()while of this Romance (miscalled Novel) is already !amiliar to the roblic. Two Prench Translations have at peared of it at Paris, and to do them justice, Messieurs the Journalists, in their strictures, have not been sparing of pa negyric. For some of the incidents in this work PonTEa has been indebted to the romantic Adventures of RIPPERDA, but the chatacter of that distinguished personage in all i s greatue33, and littleness, that magnificence of geninS, that ampli tude of mind so fatally perverted by the thirst of lame, the lust for dominion,—this character, at once so splendid, so mean, so exceptionable, be longs exclusively to liiss Poitren, and must be classed with the most felicitous creations of fe male. genius. It is worthy of remark, that the French Jour nalists have been most laAish of commendation on the domestic sketches of Mrs. CosINGSBY anti her daughters, in other words, of the family group assem'ded at tire Pastor's Fireside; our own predilections wont] certainly lead us to select the continental scenes, jocvidiug the prob a tion of Louis, the 'masterly delineations of the Court, the conflicts between Ripperda and %Vitamin, and the awful meeting between Ripperda and Louis, which is full of pathos and dramatic interest.— The following Extract, though not equally bril liant with some other passages, with a kw mas— terly touches, developes the character of Ripperda, fallen front his greatness, and a victim to that despotism which, wherever it is pevanitted to exist, must paralyse individual talent, and destroy and gladly beard hire, discuss them, with all his former to bricty of manner, and decision of command. " But,' asked the faithful servant, ' should the Marquis visit thie prison when we are gone, liow is he to know where to follow you " My actions shall proclaith to him and •to the world ethere to follow me!' replied the Duke ; ' If he be the paYt•i cide these people represent, he will then repent the peuir part 1w haft now taken ; and see the policy, if not the duty, of being true to the fortunes of such a father. But, if these wretches have slandered him, and he be indeed my son, — then I will make that England, which fostered him, what I would have turle this ungrateful, ruined country!' " THATKICAL REGiSTEL • rerformfd Lest Ni - ,YUCATRE ROYAL, Duttity-LtNy..—Kim; Richard the Third : Duive of Ciloneester, Mr. Kean; Lady Alloy, Miss Boyce. After which, Review. TnEATHE liOYAL, COVENT-GAlMEN.—thella: Biro'', Mr. Young; Isabella, Miss O'Neill. Alto- Bolubastes Furiuso. Tu which was added, Harlequin Gulliver. MAILS. Dlll,llll, g Waterford, 1 France, 1 liatnbargli. Dui-1 1)111ilin ; I (iottenlvargl4, 1 LISLIGIR. PRICE OF sTocKs THIS PAY AT 1 ,, F.1,VE We Baal: Stork .. £7B 1.79 Bank 1.. Anti, 21114 „ A rt.( Ct - nt. Red 77111 India 1i0nd5..........99 , . pr. 4 per( ent.C0n5........-78li Exch. ISiHsi 4d. ~.20s. lii pr. 31 per Cent ... .. . 871-1 I)itto, 2id.. 194 21s. pr. 4 per Cents .....90/& 4 omui U tn. ... ..,..... d 1 A. -a I , r. 5 per Cent. N. Ann . ..... 1071 i Cuts. f,,F July 79i 79 HIGH - WATER AT LON10()N BRIDGE To-mom:1)w. Morning, 57 minutes after 7. I Evenit)g, 4 ininites after B. titttiotiril virtue : " While these machinations were going on at Madrid, Ripperda found the Alcazar at Segovia answer every purpose of his malignant rivals, but that of subduing his 9 They bad placed him in charge of a creature of their own. And though the noble prisoner lay for several days in.such extremity, that for as many nights his faithful servant dc+ spaired of his ever seeing the light of another morning, yet nu physician was permitted to enter those dismal walls. A dungeon was his chamber ; and the coarsest fare his sup port. The men, who would nut dare to administer poison or strangulation, calculated without tem,irse on this way of ridding themselves of au obnoxious life. When they thought hint sufficiently reduced by sickness and bodily hardships, they put his will to the torture, by sending a Well-tutored priest to extort a confession of his crimes. The demand Was backed by an insulting assurance, that, ors such a proof of penitenc:; lie should be allowed the. indulgence of the . state apartments, and the range of the garden for exercise. " Ripperda rejected these insidious proffers with indigna tion. Sometimes the language of his Inquisitor provoked him beyond self-eontroul; -and, between the delirium of ill ness, and the phrenzy of despair, he, more than once, was left racing, or insensible, in the arms of his servant. As time Wore away, and no tidings of Louis or Lorenzo arrived, his enemies took advantage of this circumstance ; and on 11lititini incautiously druppingA hint of the young Marquis's future revenge on the injurers of his father, the priest inti mated that Louis was in Lou good an understanding with his own interests to unite them again with'a discarded traitor, though he were his parent. "'Phis imputation on his son was too much for the small remnant of patience that remained to the Mike. He was now reduced to a maddening state of mental irritation ; to an ex ;operated hatred of human nature ; and denouncing Austria and Spain in one wide malediction, he fiercely commanded their agent to leave his presence.' The man, however, sat, unmoved in soul or in countenance, while Martini looked with anguish on his master; as on a noble galley he had late ly seen proudly stemming its steady way through the raging sea, but now beheld bereft of rudder and compass, and at the mercy of every wind. " The malignant priest waited for a momentary calm, and then threw out some dark hints, that in a test' clays Itipperda would be .removed to a surer durance ; and on a double charge of having secretly maintained the principles of here sy its himself ; and entrusted the interests of his Catholic Majesty to his son, .horn he knew to be a professed heretic. The Duke listened to this in gloomy silence ; tort when the subtle agent proceeded to say, that this sun had offered Iris evidence to witness the seine, Ripperda started from his chair. He now knew no bounds to his wrath ; and lie pro claimed it in such a manner, that the terrified priest flew be fore him. Insult and outrage seemed to have given that In, dily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery bad taken no pains to restore. " Revenge is within me, like a new principle of life !' Cried he, to Martini; I will free myself. And then they shall feel the strength that lies in this single arm !' " Martini learnt from the servants of the prison, that the 'priest's denunciation was no vain threat; for preparations were silently making for the Duke's removal to the Inquisi tion, as soon as the Kin , . b could be brought to sign the war rant. All knew that such a warrant was the signal of deaths'; and of such a death, that human nature shuddered at the bare idea of its, horrors. Martini hastened to his master with the intelligtiace. He found him leaning over a map of the world, which lay on the table before him. Ripperda at tended to all he said, with profound attention. When he bad finished speaking, he commanded him to Withdraw for -an hour i &hest *ltiCh time, he would tell him his reso lution. • " It was t - sto hours before the Duke called bins in from the anti-chamber, which was his usual station as his master's guard.; and then he calmly told him that it was his deter fuination to effect his own escape, and to take his revenge front the pillars of Hercules. As he spoke, be pointed with his finger to the spot on the map which marked the Rock of tiikaltar. Martini readily came into all his master's plans; THE SUN. SO.LEM Otis . 110.7.1tE eAI.sIJSI AUDEAT ? LONDON, TUESDAY, 411.4 Y 1818. THE QUEEN: This morning the following Bulletin was issued respecting iler AlmsTY's health : " Queen's Palace, May IG, 1818, 11 A.M. " The QUEEN continues much the same to-day as Her MAJESTY was yesterday, having passed another good night. " FRANCIS - NIILMAN, " HENRY II:ILFORD." We hate the pleasure, front private inielligence on which we can depend, to confirm the Bulletin of this day respecting Her MAJESTY'S health,— The disorder is so much abated, that all present danger is thought to be removed, and there settus to be no apprehension of another attack. There is no truth in the report that was circu lated yesterday, of the Death of the Princess of WALes. The loss of an Illustrious Daughter, who was universally beloved, and was the hope of this Country, must, of course, have deeply af fected her Royal Highness; and so dreadful a loss must have excited a shock, the effects of which cannot be easily surmounted. We received this morning a Port-au-Prince Paper of the I 2th ultimo, in which, after the an nouncement of the death of the President PRTION, and of the arrangements for his funeral, the following Proclamation is given, which was issued by his Successor, General BoYEll " PROCLAMATION to the PEOPLE and the ARMY. " JEAN PIERRE BOY ER, President of Hayti. " Citizens,—Alexandec Petion is - no more, we have lost that incomparable Chief, our Father, our Benefactor ; our regrets are common, our tears mingled together sufficiently indicate what was the union of our hearts, and renders it evident on whom we had fixed our regirds, on him who had been chosen by Providence as the dispenser of. its kindness to a regenerated people, and of which destination he never lust sight. Let us turn our eyes upon the past, let us look back , on the way through which we have passed, let us look to what we have done, and recollect that instead of our energy not being employed, it has been, on the contrary, wielded with all its force, and we shall see that in his Excellency the late President of Hayti, whilst still our country was the divinity 'that attracted ,our worship, he was well worthy of being chosen amongst us to represent it. But whatever may be the magni tude of our -loss, yet let us be ►►live to tl►at sacred voice which ought to make itself. heard, and to agitate all our souls, and at the sound of which our hearts ought electrically to raise themselves above all the events appertaining to humanity. Hari is the work of your hands, the product of your courage where Liberty and the Rights of the Citizen are in the most perfect state. Shall we renounce these ines►imable advantages by stiffer ing ourselves to be cast down by adversity ? Let it i -on the contrary, re-animate our courage. Citi zens, let us form a circle round the Tree of Liberty, where the ashes of our august Chief repose, and let his name, the sacred name of the Republic, be our rallying cry, our word of order ; let us terrify . our e.nemies by our firm and imposing attitude ; let us become, if need be, a nation of heroes. Experience has proved to us the nature of our strength ; we are, we ought to be, invincible. Let us be united, and notbingcau arrest the course of our happy destiny; tlie republic of Hayti wil triumph ; the Harians, die people, bare wale, it, and it will br. " ley the eiroice of We . Senate to take rh'e helm of the vessel of the State, l will give you the example of courage. lam become Hay Chief of a mostinteresti•cg fitfully, and I htrve need of the Divine assistance, of the concurrence and aid of my fellow•eitizens. In a popular Govern ment the people are every thing, their confi dence it is vt Lich constitutes authority, and that authority can only be used for their advantage. I feel amidst the ardent love of My conntry by which I Aisi animated, and the respect that I owe to the national will, that I am no longer the same individual, that lam the man of the State. Oh my Fellow citizens cover Inc with your shield ; Senators, Le gislators, be my friends, enlighten me ; fienrals my colleagues and hfothers in arms ; brave Al my of the Republic, give me the assistance of your arms to ensure the peace and repose of our laud lies ; Magistrates of tbe people reckon upon the execution of the laws, upon its being my first duty to observe them ; Agriculturists, peaceable cul tivators, give yourselves up, without fear, to your valuable labours; the more the prdduce is advan tageous to you, the more thy mind will be satisfied. Noticing tkat has been established by my aognst predecessor either can or ought to be altered, the preservation of the Republic de pends upon the sacred right of property, upon the master of one square of land being consider ed equal in the eye of the law to him who has a hundred, and equally the master of what he pos sesses, it depends upon commerce being left without disturbance to its speculations, and whether in the republic or with foreigners, it shall in protected ; the object of the constitution shall be fulfilled; order and economy shall every where prevail ; the money of the State shall be employed for the advantage of the State ; public credit shall not be invaded ; the national debt is under the safeguard of the nation ; the worship of our ancestors shall be respected, the Magistrates honoured,good men considered. Pray God I may never have to pu nish the guilty or the wicked, it will be to my heart the most painful of sacrifices. But what ever sacrifices may be necessary to insure the hap piness of the people, let my heating heart be ani mated by the sacred fire of Hayti, let me burn with a fire similar to that which de vours me, the pure flame of liberty, and of the love of my fellow-citizens, Generals 'of the army who are entrusted with autho rity, every one in the order of your attributes ; Magistrates who are alive to the interests of families do your duty, responsibility rests upon you, it shall be very light, for I owe you no ticing but praise and gratitude, and admiration to the people and the army. Under the recent painful circumstances order has been perfectly preserved, and you have strewn that you are far from being unworthy of your political situa tion. Continue, Oh my clear fellow-citizens, to shield me with the buckler of your esteem and your confidence. Whenever you wish to deve lope energy and firmness "you will find the at my post ; assist, rue to do good ; mildness and bene volence shall be the rule of that conduct which you shall invariably witness in me ; follow this excellent course, so agreeable to my principles, and to my heart; " fire la Npublique !---Vireat les Droits du People et l'lud4endence &Hayti! " Given at the National Palace of Port-au- Prince, the Ist Api il, 1818, in the 15th Year of the Independence of " BOYEIt. " By the President, " The Secretary-General, " B. INGINAC." [The Paper contains in addition an Address of the Foreign Merchants at Port-an-Prince to the new , President, with the Answer of the latter, and an Order of the Day issued by the President, dated the 2d April, for the re-coanenceenent of public business.] We received this morning' the Paris Papers of Saturday last. They state at some length, as a matter of great importance, the arrest at Paris of the Chief of a gang of robbers and two of his ac complices, but contain no political news of any importance. The Chamber of Council of the Tribunal of Cor rectional Police at Rotten have decided against the claim of Messrs. COMTE and DUNOYER to be set at liberty they are to be tried on Thursday. These Papers repeat the statement given in the German Journals of the dangerous illness of the Princess of WALES. The King of PeusstA is expected to leave Berlin for Moscow the 27th in.t. FIVE PER CENTS. Friday . 68 f. &Q c. DEFERRED STOCK. Friday SI f. IS c. l' ej% The LORD CIIANCELLOR last -ni d ,to ll , House, proposed the introduction -Of - Tns (I.IE.SieS CefirNblL BILL, the Cll . l‘ 1 4 119 i, of which Yeas to e nac t the nottlinato4l4.ll io addition to those ittP°lnie to he 0 6 IleiOcy Act, one of whom eras tttMietl - at Windsor. The new iNiclubc.ilP posed by his Lordship were ,C 4 E 4 ", ° 6 6 : . 40 1 MACCLESFIELD j WILLI .4:4, j,Cr 4 , LoNDo.7I; ALLEY NE, L or d St. jgL ps MokToN, Lord HENLEY, G. C. to ractert could be selected better en tillolt i l respect and confidence, the Committee, of" agreed to the nomination. Lnia 11411 1 1 1j ,11 celled on this subject, as Earl tins/ a previous occasion, to the vrioosor l be 1 ment, as having been formed upon;1 1 of an expectation that Ili* MAiserlili4lo', eel., and therefore that the subjec t expol4lloi dergo a .revisititt. We cannot bu t surprise that any person of high titbi t I " 'oil should object to an Establishment o°o/ the dignity of our Alunarellical and so respectful to the Illustrlea‘ dot of THE CROWN. COnSiiltritlg tba .fifth age of our venecable Sovereign; and Character which he has uniform (13 lY - 00 : through life, it would be unworthy of to diminish any thing that might tes titY j ef i reverence Of his subjecti. It absolutely impossible thit HiS 10h155 :00 11 recover=and what Wonlil be the feelirrs (E who had, In any respect; abridge d 11 t act It or tiny of those expentes e A)i t ' skate national esteem and affection be° from its very naiure and princitilei temporary, and no Ibyal subject tiO d i g Empire would repine at subscribing l'istiute; it, but, on the contrary, feel pl e astlte- iii tribution. Besides, after all, the it' Sv " ro , l lp . fates among ourselves, and conseVreutl Pdit4 trade. HISTORY would blush in ec(!r ol l pitiful a saving on a point conY eeljell s s lll veneration for so excellent a .11.iona i° ' the other hand, would exult in persevering liberality so honourable tut`i- CliaraC;cr. TrIE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CA -0 t i DovE.R, MAY 25, Half-past Fir' vessels with the carriages of his Rol' d thy Duke cf CAMBRIDGE are arrived, cofj thilig is disembarked : the RoyalSvc ° , 44 l :4 in sight, with leading wind, and vvi l ill lli e t ' Roads in about halt an hour--Oh e able to come in, ow ing to the stole of er I ; t e m , s l l* the guns are already liaadtd to fire o H i j ei lute when they land the Duchess i 5 very amiable woman, about tw ettEr tls.°l otl 4l Age, in good health and spirits, but Hoed with travelling. . 1 " half-past Six P. M.—The DAP tro o of CAMBRIDGE have this instant lon de ` l o l, Royal Sovereign. Their Suite is very te cti l i The above is the only article of aPY our Ship News of this day. The Duke and Duchess of CAMBKIIIOIi a it dine in T own thi s day, and prCritrat— accordingly been made to rece i ve then"' _ HOMBURG ' left The PRINCE R ft Review tit flouunsio 3in IV. Ch r° i Air Hos - Town RGE NT o l a i n ( I tolutenrorz,,ifole,e, wittlteour . 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Lord CoctiftAr4B's new vessel li es n i ll til r ehlit part of the Commercial Dock, near 11°—Ieitbo!, Sl) is of about two hundred tons hurdle": ° er e f l i ' site . has three masts, with complete P°l3klOri ging, slke has also u steam apparatus; s ° or Lordship is prepared to make lii 9 ( " gil d chef( when the winds deny it, or %shell he a i lp )-- 1 0 : not agree. She is called The North , P „ ° , --' 6 1 , 0 ' 11 : name is insaibed on :her stern, "" ) : :e , rr i u Constellation of. the hear is painteu, -11 ," is Star being on the Bear's tail. A B ea : it ' . figure head. From these circitinstaocet'entlf a b . een supposed that: Lord coctitkAta i' i ti ,(l l ! •statnndaitmtillitemils'afrolriantileientfiairsyt rNe‘av:irgilao(f)rt'vvet,l();ioPilli;„ the Nottlk Pole. Butt his L000411'3504 tendency i. to stratagem. The tia" . s g tic obi l° ,l'l • tell be was first distinguished, s" - he v 1 1, 51, by his rendering a cutter so like one ° t I - itly' tha t he 1 / 85 be 4' vessels of the Aleiliterraueaut, side of a large Spanish zebeck , w hiie t t edi f Lion below deck ' without the slig"ces- 'II l igli ion of hostility. His p resent vess el ' 3" t il' i approach the North Sea, for she los of doubled. Why there is so witch in " b r ig ° mciits, relative to the North Pole, ce'r!III,1"/ beard, nor what is her real tlestinatioo• ir' pierced for ten gun' , an d •I t in° 111) has 4lk; I (Herald.) vi li ; Pit tei Iv o C4t Auk t iPc Avit to r brit at ti 04 1 D 447 i 14 / 24,